Crafty

Back in the early 80's, my mom stitched an Advent calendar of a Christmas tree with 24 ornaments. Growing up, every morning in December the three of us kids would crowd around the felt tree to watch one of us pin the new ornament to the tree. I always loved how shiny the tree looked.

Angie now has the Advent tree that we used growing up and her two little boys get to eagerly look at the shiny tree as they try to patiently countdown to Christmas morning.

Last time I was home I mentioned how much I would love to have a similar wall hanging, so my 95 year-old-grandmother offered to stitch me one. She cut out the tree and sewed all the pockets to hold the ornaments. She also cut out numbers and glued the days onto each pocket. Can you believe that at the age of 95 she is still that crafty!?

Now it's my turn to attempt to be crafty. I'm cutting out ornaments and sewing sequins onto each and every one and I lined the tree with gold sequins, to make it as shiny as possible.

I hope 30 years from now I have a daughter who thinks fondly on the shiny Advent calendar her mom stitched for her. And maybe, if I'm really blessed, I'll get to watch my grandchildren pin ornaments onto the tree as they try to patiently countdown to Christmas morning.


Thanks Angie for taking pics of mom's calendar and all the ornaments. I'm using the photos as a guide on how to sew on sequins!